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Trick: Howto "spice IceWM up" |
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Wednesday, 29 November 2006 |
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IceWM is a tiny window manager for Linux and Unix that requires far less memory and CPU power than even XFCE, a common window manager for lightweight systems. |
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Trick: URPMI quick and easy |
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Monday, 27 November 2006 |
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One of the best Mandriva specific tools is, without a doubt, urpmi. This tools allows a better and easier package management and helps to find a way out of the “dependency hell” that many inexperienced users complain about.
This article gives you an overview of the most often used options and some tricks how to use it efficiently. |
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Ubuntu Linux: What's All the Fuss? |
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Monday, 27 November 2006 |
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Ubuntu Linux is hot. Really hot. How hot? Well, if you surf over to Distrowatch , you'll notice that Ubuntu is listed as the number one distribution, at least in terms of hit ranking on the site. SUSE and Fedora are usually duking it out for second and third place. In fact, Ubuntu has been in first place for quite a while now. [SysAdmin] |
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Tip: Five things to know when you switch to Linux |
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Tuesday, 21 November 2006 |
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If you have just installed GNU/Linux on your computer, and have only ever used Windows before, here are five things you need to know to get going rapidly. On Windows, you were probably used to find a given program on the Internet, download a setup.exe file, and then install the program in something like C:Program Files. Things are very different on GNU/Linux. |
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Trick: Racoon Roadwarrior Configuration |
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Tuesday, 21 November 2006 |
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Roadwarrior is a client that uses unknown, dynamically assigned IP addresses to connect to a VPN gateway (in this case also firewall). This situation is shown on picture 1.1 and is one of the most interesting and today most needed scenarios in business environment. |
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Mandriva 2007: Back in the race |
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Friday, 03 November 2006 |
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Beginning with an easy-to-use installer and booting into a well-thought-out desktop, Mandriva 2007 provides an environment that is aesthetically consistent and makes new users feel at home. Where Mandriva 2006 failed to provide an appropriate level of support for more advanced users, Mandriva 2007 includes prominently displayed tools for configuration from the desktop. Although these tools are marred by sluggish package management and an unhelpful security rating system, as well as instability on some machines, overall Mandriva 2007 re-establishes the distribution as one of the most advanced desktop experiences in GNU/Linux. |
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